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A split-screen image with a person in the top-left, red text on top-right and bottom-left, and a gray on bottom-right

A split-screen image with a person in the top-left, red text on top-right and bottom-left, and a gray on bottom-right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fran…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant split
  • top-left person
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left text
  • bottom-right solid color

Dense Caption

Top-left quadrant shows a person with curly brown hair wearing a green and yellow striped hat and white shirt. Top-right quadrant has red background with white pixelated text reading 'the 4 food groups are...'. Bottom-left quadrant has red background with white pixelated text reading 'candy candy corn candy canes and syrup'. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. All text uses a blocky, low-resolution font. The image is divided into four equal quadrants.

Description

  • A split-screen image with a person in the top-left, red text on top-right and bottom-left, and a gray on bottom-right

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy food groups
  • candy corn candy canes syrup
  • 4 food groups candy
  • humorous food groups
  • candy corn candy canes and syrup
  • the 4 food groups are candy
  • candy food groups humor
  • candy corn syrup food groups

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A split-screen image with a person in the top-left, red text panels on top-right and bottom-left, and a gray panel on bottom-right.
  • quarantined objects: text panels

Visible Text

  • the 4 food groups are...
  • candy
  • candy corn
  • candy canes
  • and
  • syrup

Wordwall

  • person with curly brown hair
  • green and yellow striped hat
  • white shirt
  • red background
  • gray background
  • pixelated text
  • candy corn
  • candy canes
  • syrup
  • food groups

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071122153139181795762
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6e/6e07aea7e21c01beb3743fc481c49ef4e1727c2761c58a43316b332854bca2f4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC
Archive ID
6e07aea7e21c01be
SHA-256
6e07aea7e21c01beb3743fc481c49ef4e1727c2761c58a43316b332854bca2f4
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:52 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.124541

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A split-screen image with a person in the top-left, red text on top-right and bottom-left, and a gray on bottom-right

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 10:24 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,474 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 753

Review tags

  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • hat (object, 0.80)
  • shirt (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • gray
  • green
  • yellow
  • brown
  • white

Composition

  • four-quadrant split
  • top-left person
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left text
  • bottom-right solid color

Dense Caption

Top-left quadrant shows a person with curly brown hair wearing a green and yellow striped hat and white shirt. Top-right quadrant has red background with white pixelated text reading 'the 4 food groups are...'. Bottom-left quadrant has red background with white pixelated text reading 'candy candy corn candy canes and syrup'. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. All text uses a blocky, low-resolution font. The image is divided into four equal quadrants.

Description

  • A split-screen image with a person in the top-left, red text on top-right and bottom-left, and a gray on bottom-right

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • humorous
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy food groups
  • candy corn candy canes syrup
  • 4 food groups candy
  • humorous food groups
  • candy corn candy canes and syrup
  • the 4 food groups are candy
  • candy food groups humor
  • candy corn syrup food groups

Objects

  • hat
  • shirt
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A split-screen image with a person in the top-left, red text panels on top-right and bottom-left, and a gray panel on bottom-right.
  • quarantined objects: text panels

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • the 4 food groups are...
  • candy
  • candy corn
  • candy canes
  • and
  • syrup

Wordwall

  • person with curly brown hair
  • green and yellow striped hat
  • white shirt
  • red background
  • gray background
  • pixelated text
  • candy corn
  • candy canes
  • syrup
  • food groups
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:09 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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Full source records (1)
Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)
Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
20071122153139181795762
Archive entry
20071122153139181795762.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture
Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071122153139181795762.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071122153139181795762.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016